MAY is the best time of the year in cambridge - even though it's June.

Hello everyone -

absence was long, I know.

BUT - now that exams are over and Cambridge is over I thought I'd share a bit of the Cambridge reward that comes every year after the terror of exams - May Week. May Week is actually a week in June. Mid-June. Some friends pointed out (many times) that here is a paradoxical name analogous to Oktoberfest (takes place in September) and the October revolution that actually took place in November? or something like that.

In any case -

Here we go.

This year I wore 2 dresses (for Trinity and Downing May Balls) by my mother - designer Kika Ioannidou - one was specially made and the other was taken from her pret-a-porter range but Oh My God is it gorgeous.

TRINITY MAY BALL 20th June 2011

Blue satin dress with matching cape by Kika Ioannidou.
I loved the color AND the details at the neckline and back.
From right: friends Andria, Rebecca, Alex, myself and Kyriakos.

Also notice my friend Rebecca's gorgeous dress with the bow detail at the bust.

I wore the dress with blue patent leather clog sandals from Kurt Geiger.

The infamous back detail of the dress. Craftsmanship!
From left: Evi, Andria, Alex, Kyriakos

Back detail of the dress.

Front detail of the neckline

                                             

Walking back home at 6am. This gives a glimpse of how the dress shows in motion.

This picture I love.

DOWNING MAY BALL JUNE 21st 2011

Dark blue chiffon strapless dress with bead detail at waist.

I chose to wear this dress with flats seeing as my feet were practically dead after Trinity. Hence my friend Rebecca is towering over me in this picture with her sexy, tropically coloured dress.

Detail of the bust and beads

Halfway through the night what was originally an elastic belt but was used as a hair scrunchy to keep my hair up became a hippie head band - the theme was Olympus so I thought I'd look the part.

I paired the dress with a midnight blue H&M blazer.

Posing.